the guys paying you millions of dollars..they just want the leage to be prestigious..they take it seriously its an honor and a privilege to play in the league..

exactly....b-o-o h-o-o i can't wear my headband upside down like a douche bag. i bet if lebron was wearing a jordan headband with the jumpman logo upside down and nike told him not to do that anymore, he wouldn't have a problem with it and neither would any of you.

exactly....b-o-o h-o-o i can't wear my headband upside down like a douche bag. i bet if lebron was wearing a jordan headband with the jumpman logo upside down and nike told him not to do that anymore, he wouldn't have a problem with it and neither would any of you.

Some of us aren't slaves... Some of us don't hand over our freedom willingly for comfort or money... Some of us like to stand up for ourselves...

Also, some of us realize that without the players, there is no NBA... So like I said, f**k Stern...

Some of us aren't slaves... Some of us don't hand over our freedom willingly for comfort or money... Some of us like to stand up for ourselves...

Also, some of us realize that without the players, there is no NBA... So like I said, f**k Stern...

k!ll urself for acting like getting paid millions of dollars to play a game is anything like being a slave. the nba is his employer, thats not his "freedom". its not his right to play in the nba and wear wutever he wants. if u go to work at best buy with ur shirt untucked, theyll tell u to tuck that s**t in. far from slavery a**hole.

kill urself for acting like getting paid millions of dollars to play a game is anything like being a slave. the nba is his employer, thats not his "freedom". its not his right to play in the nba and wear wutever he wants. if u go to work at best buy with ur shirt untucked, theyll tell u to tuck that s**t in. far from slavery a**hole.

So you think the amount of money being made is what keeps this from being a form of SLAVERY?

Definition of SLAVERY
1
: drudgery, toil
2
: submission to a dominating influence
3
a : the state of a person who is a chattel of another b : the practice of slaveholding

I understand that you may have confused it with the Slavery that blacks were subjected to at the onset of this great nation of yours, but someone telling you what you can and can't do, means they own you... You're a slave of this country whether you know it or not..

So you think the amount of money being made is what keeps this from being a form of SLAVERY?

I understand that you may have confused it with the Slavery that blacks were subjected to at the onset of this great nation of yours, but someone telling you what you can and can't do, means they own you... You're a slave of this country whether you know it or not..

wow...clearly u r a rational person who thinks that being employed and being enslaved are 1 in the same. slavery isn't voluntary, i cant believe f**gots like u exist.

UPDATE 12:08 pm: The NBA’s official explanation is that it is a “safety issue” (via FanHouse). Butler can chew straws on the bench, but not during game play. Because it’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.

9:25 am: Before and during games, Caron Butler had a habit of chewing straws. Goes through about a dozen a game on average. Plastic straws. We don’t get it either, but it’s his thing, and as things go it’s pretty harmless. Other teammates (including Dirk Nowitzki) were joining in the fun in warm-ups the other night.

But now David Stern and the league office have banned the harmless habit.

The questions are why, and why now? This is Butler’s 12th year in the league and he has been chewing straws for a long, long time. This is not some new trend. And it’s not like Butler is just now coming to prominence. It was fine for Butler to chew straws when he was an All-Star. It was fine when he played alongside Kobe Bryant. But now it’s a problem?

The league office couldn’t be bothered to put out a statement yesterday on the new blood tests testing for Human Growth Hormone — both the NFL and MLB were all over this with top league officials speaking on the issue — but they have the time to ban straw chewing?

This is not the first time Stern has done something like this...he banned Caron Butler from straw chewing banned as soon as he was traded to Dallas, Butler was chewing straws for years when he was with the Wizards but he get's traded to Dallas and it's a problem.

So fu*k Stern and I don't feel bad for him at all for the NBA for losing money and I hope there's a lock out that will teach his a**.

he is an employee of a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR corporation and has his face on cam easily 100 times a game. You do not want to run the company and see one of your star employees wearing your logo incorrectly. If you wanted your logo worn that way, you would have it produced that way. To be quite i'm shocked this hasn't happened earlier. It's not hatin', it's business.

wtf difference does it make how he wears the f**king thing? SMH....he's always trippin about the NBA players' appearance...like he worried about them looking like thugs...yet, he is the only one that see's that when they used to dress the way they did with the laxed dress code....

This is not the first time Stern has done something like this...he banned Caron Butler from straw chewing banned as soon as he was traded to Dallas, Butler was chewing straws for years when he was with the Wizards but he get's traded to Dallas and it's a problem.

So fu*k Stern and I don't feel bad for him at all for the NBA for losing money and I hope there's a lock out that will teach his a**.

Things go on like that at regular 9-5 too especially with new management or super a.ss kissers. I recently had a coworker get chewed/out snitched on cuz just cuz a supervisor just noticed his chewing tobacco chillin on his desk...it wasnt like ol dude was chewing while on calls but she made a big deal about & skipped over sup call she was supposed to take over.

he is an employee of a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR corporation and has his face on cam easily 100 times a game. You do not want to run the company and see one of your star employees wearing your logo incorrectly. If you wanted your logo worn that way, you would have it produced that way. To be quite i'm shocked this hasn't happened earlier. It's not hatin', it's business.

the only response thats really worth a damn in this thread, and probably the one that will go the most overlooked..